India, Sept. 6 -- Bruce Willis has been largely out of the public eye since his frontotemporal dementia (FTD) diagnosis in November 2022. However, before the diagnosis, there were small hints that all was not well at home as Willis, 70, who has always been playful and full of life, began to pull back. According to People, this was the time when his wife, Emma Heming Willis, 49, began noticing little changes; the Die Hard star was struggling to find the right words, even slipping back into a childhood stutter.

At the time, neither of them realized he was showing early signs of primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a form of FTD. "FTD can affect people in different ways and there are three different subtypes. There is one that affects behavio...